The guy would have been evicted, one way or another. We just got the justice we would have gotten sooner.
In all the months he stayed there he never gave his sister a dime, though she billed him every month and copied us on what she billed him. Then after she had been gone for two months (and she never told us), he remained, with no intention of paying rent to her or us or anyone. That was when we went to see what was going on and found the bum and all his mess.
HE and what he as doing, and what some court eviction process would have permitted him was the real corruption.
There is nothing right or good about squatting on someone else’s property. Allowing squatters is a giant corruption. The lawyers and the corrupt judges win, the property owner loses.
My point exactly. You're "connected"; you got to the head of the line. Good for you. I'd have done the same thing. But we shouldn't have to. This is Third-World stuff ... the next step is institutionalized bribery.
Everything else you write, on the evils of "squatting" and the greater evils of government permitting it ... 100% agree.
Years a ago, I ran across an article on Adverse Possession, and how proper can be transferred / acquired / stolen that way.
But there is a legal process, and a lot of jumping through hoops, to accomplish it.
“someone who squats on a property for a certain amount of time, treats the property as their own, pays property taxes, lives their life as if they are the owner, and is never legally asked to leave can eventually claim it as their own.”
I believe they have to publish intentions in the newspaper, and prove that they’ve made Ed c very effort to contact the owner.